Storm world : hurricanes, politics, and the battle over global warming / Chris Mooney.
Mooney, Chris (Chris C.)
2007
QC944 .M66 2007 (Mapit)
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Title Storm world : hurricanes, politics, and the battle over global warming / Chris Mooney.
Author Mooney, Chris (Chris C.)
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780151012879
0151012873
Imprint Orlando : Harcourt, c2007.
Language English
Description 392 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number QC944 .M66 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification 363.738/74
Summary One of the leading science journalists and commentators working today, Chris Mooney delves into a red-hot debate in meteorology: whether the increasing ferocity of hurricanes is connected to global warming. In the wake of Katrina, Mooney follows the careers of leading scientists on either side of the argument through the 2006 hurricane season, tracing how the media, special interests, politics, and the weather itself have skewed and amplified what was already a fraught scientific debate. As Mooney puts it: ʺScientists, like hurricanes, do extraordinary things at high wind speeds.ʺ Mooney - a native of New Orleans - has written a fascinating and urgently compelling book that calls into question the great inconvenient truth of our day: Are we responsible for making hurricanes even bigger monsters than they already are? Also includes information on Hurricane Andres, Australia, blogs, George W. Bush, carbon dioxide, Tropical Cyclone Catarina, Hurricane Charley, Jule Gregory Charney, Judith Curry, cyclones, El Nino, Kerry Emanuel, ExxonMobil, global climate models (GCMs), Al Gore, William Gray, Greg Holland, Hurricane Ivan, Japan, Hurricane Katrina, Thomas Knutson, Chris Landsea, latent heat, theories of maximum potential intensity, maximum sustained wind speeds, National Hurricane Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), oil and gas industry, William Redfield, Herbert Riehl, Hurricane Rita, typhoons, water vapor, weather forecasting, Peter Webster, Tropical Storm Zeta, etc.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Linked Resources Table of contents only
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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Prologue: 6229 Memphis Street
Introduction: ʺThe Party Lineʺ
Part I: Warming and Storming
1. Chimneys and Whirlpools
2. Of Heat Engines
3. and Computer Models
4. ʺLay That Matrix Downʺ
5. From Hypercanes to Hurricane Andrew
Part II: Boiling Over
Interlude: Among the Forecasters
6. The Luck of Florida
7. Frictional Divergence
8. Anger Dissipation
9. ʺThe #⁵%^& Hit the Fanʺ
10. Resistance
11. ʺConsensusʺ
Part III: Storm World
12. Pre-Season Warm-Ups
13. Where Are the Storms?
14. Hurricane Climatology
Conclusion: Home Again
Acknowledgments
Appendix I: The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale
Appendix II: Cyclone Typology
Appendix III: Early Hurricane-Climate Speculations
Appendix IV: Consensus Statements by Participants in World Meteorological Organizationʾs 6ht International Workshop on Tropical Cyclones, San Jose, Costa Rica, November 2006
Bibliography/Recommended Reading
List of Interviews.

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